Comrade Timi Frank wrote an open letter to US President
Barack Obama thanking him for provided assistance at rescue of the
Chibok girls and asking to help in fighting corruption in the country as
well. Read the whole open letter below:
Sir:
This is to thank the President of the United States of America,
President Barack Obama and other national governments like United
Kingdom, France, Canada, China, Israel, among others, currently
assisting Nigeria to BringBackOurGirls.
While
thanking you and other national governments for the overwhelming
support aimed at the safe rescue of our girls, we want to implore you to
also assist us to fight corruption in Nigeria with the same zeal and
dedication you have displayed in efforts to help #BringBackOurGirls
alive.
This has become necessary in our
country because if this is not done now, very soon, the world may need
to rally fresh support for Nigeria to quell another evil to be unleashed
by the rising incidence of corruption in our country. Evidence abounds
that the insecurity and insurgency pervading our country today is due
largely to corruption and outright diversion of scarce national
resources by unscrupulous government officials.
We
know that we have one of the best security forces in the world who are
well capable to secure the country but for the corruption in government
that has prevented them from getting all that is required to remain
highly capacitated.
The irony of the
situation is that the present administration is doing everything to
shield corrupt officials rather than prosecute them to serve as a
deterrent to others.
For instance,
while the government reluctantly fired a minister after allegedly
purchasing two BMW bullet-proof cars at the sum of N255 million, the
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, alleged to
have squandered N10billion to hire private jets in two years and under
whose watch, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has
allegedly failed to remit $20billion to the Federation Account, has been
allowed to carry on with impunity.
